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Hello, and welcome to the David From Show. I'm David From, a staff writer at The Atlantic.

My guest this week will be Sam Harris, and we'll discuss the turn in the politics of Silicon Valley,

away from some of the hopeful politics that prevailed in the past to a dark authoritarian politics that determines the present.

Sam will help me to understand why this happened and how and what it may mean for the politics of the rest of the country.

In the book section, I'll be discussing a 1999 historical classic by Robert Proctor.

But before getting to those subjects of the middle and the end of the show, I want to open with some preliminary thoughts about the recent malicious prosecution of James Comey by the Trump

administration. Now, this podcast will release on the 1st of October, and by then, we may be in a government

shutdown. If that does happen, I will have some thoughts next week on what happened and why and what to do about it. But I don't want to speculate here about hypothetical contingencies when we have this glaring, shocking event from the recent past that needs to be discussed a little bit. And what I want to add to this conversation is a lot has been said. Some of it, I've been on television and I've done some writing about it for the Atlantic.

I want to put this story of this malicious prosecution into a larger institutional context, a global context.

Now, what happened to James Comey is something that really could not happen in most other developed countries.

I mean, imagine, supposing you're, for example, the chancellor of

Germany and you decide you want to indict a political opponent, how would you go about doing it?

Well, the short answer is you couldn't. And if you tried, you'd probably end up in handcuffs yourself.

Because the person who handles all the prosecutions in Germany, to whom every one of the hundreds of

German federal prosecutor's answers, is a director of public prosecutions. It's got a very

complicated German title, but that's the basic idea. This person is typically a career civil servant.

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